Note to As You Like It, 3.5.133: "omittance is no quittance"


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omittance is no quittance: i.e., just because I haven't done it [returned his scorn] doesn't mean I'm not entitled to do it. —"Omittance is no quittance" is a legal proverb meaning "failure to assert a claim does not imply renunciation of the claim."